CHIKO After Dark Series with Jamie Bissonnette

Friday, Sept. 28th at 9:30 |
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Friday, Sept. 28th @ 9:30

The menu specials begin at 9:30 pm and will last until midnight, Friday, Sept 28th. The event is not a ticketed event; walk-ins are welcome. Doors are open to all on a first come, first serve basis. Alcohol specials will be announced.

An additional late night Kitchen Counter seating will be offered at 10:30. These reservation holders will be served to our Eat the Menu tasting with the bonus of our guest chefs’ unique creations. The $50 cost per person will remain the same for this late night Kitchen Counter experience.

Chef Jamie Bissonnette

Chef and owner of Coppa, Toro and Little Donkey

Bissonnette earned his Culinary Arts degree from The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale by the
young age of 19 and spent his early 20s eating and cooking his way through Paris, San Francisco,
New York and Phoenix.

After cooking in Europe and across the US, Bissonnette settled in Boston and began working in
some of the city’s most notable kitchens. Following stints at a few highly regarded restaurants,
Bissonnette opened Eastern Standard as executive chef in 2005. Next he was recruited for the
steakhouse KO Prime, and that year in 2007, The Improper Bostonian named him “Rising Star
Chef” and KO Prime “Best New Restaurant.” In 2008, Bissonnette joined Ken Oringer as
executive chef and partner of the acclaimed tapas restaurant Toro in Boston’s South End and
together in 2009 they opened the innovative Italian enoteca Coppa. StarChefs awarded
Bissonnette Rising Star Chef that same year, and directly following Coppa was awarded 3 Stars
in a rave review from the Boston Globe and honorable mention in Esquire’s Best New
Restaurants annual list.

In 2011, Bissonnette was awarded the prestigious honor of Food & Wine magazine’s first ever
People Choice Best New Chef. Since then, Bissonnette has been named Best Chef: Northeast at
the 2014 James Beard Foundation Awards. Bissonnette is a champion of nose-to-tail cuisine and
is well-known locally and nationally for his exceptional charcuterie and passionate dedication to
supporting local, sustainable purveyors. In September 2014, Jamie launched his debut
cookbook—The New Charcuterie Cookbook: Exceptional Cured Meats to Make and Serve at
Home, featuring a foreword by Andrew Zimmern. Additionally, Jamie is a past winner and
current judge of the Cochon 555 nose-to-tail competition.

In Fall 2013, he opened Toro in New York City’s South Chelsea neighborhood and it was met
with critical acclaim from The New York Times, New York Magazine and others. In 2016,
Bissonnette and Oringer brought Toro overseas to their first international location in Bangkok,
with Dubai up next in Fall 2017. The duo also debuted their first project in Cambridge,
MA—Little Donkey—in Summer 2016, which received a glowing review from Boston Magazine
and Restaurant of the Year in The Boston Globe.